Raymond van Barneveld was very disappointed with himself after losing to Nick Kenny in his opening bout on Saturday.
Thinking about defeating him in an interview with advertisement“I’m completely off the map. I’m very ashamed of this performance,” he said.
“I’ve had it [the flu] For three days but I didn’t want to mention it on TV. Then people think: “He’s got that as an excuse again.”
“I was taking vitamins, cough medicine and lozenges. Every morning, when I woke up, I would have a sore throat like what you hear now. All the energy was gone.
“You look forward to this all year, to days where you intentionally don’t shake hands and do everything you can to not get sick and then you get sick.
“When your nose is blocked and you can’t hardly breathe, you won’t have the strength to play your game.”